I have posted this here before, but the car has come quite a ways from then. I started out buying this car as my first car for $600, and then going through and slowly making the car drivable. I got in on the road in January and I have been using it as my daily driver since then. In August, I picked up a 1.9 litre engine from a '90 Escort and rebuilt it with the hemispherical head and carbed intake from the 1.6 that previously resided under the hood. Unfortunatly, at the rebuild time, I lacked the funding to install high compression pistons, so my my compression ratio is somewhere around 8:1. Even so, the car pulled of a 10.8 at 63 mph in the 1/8th mile on old P165/80 R13 tires and a worn out clutch.

Anyway, here are some pics.
When I got my hands on her:

After paint:

The old 1.6:

The new 1.9 junkyard fresh:

And after rebuild.

The strip:


Anyway, that's my baby.

-Walt